时间:2018-12-07 作者:英语课 分类:高级听力练习


英语课

the definition of  "price"


Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed 1 among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad 2 of services, including labor 3, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else. 
  If one were to ask a group of randomly 4 selected individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words that price is the money values of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid 5 as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that apply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully 6 aware of all the factors that comprise the total “package” being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.



1 rationed
限量供应,配给供应( ration的过去式和过去分词 )
  • We were rationed to two eggs a day. 每天配给我们两个鸡蛋。
  • The army is well rationed. 部队给养良好。
2 myriad
adj.无数的;n.无数,极大数量
  • They offered no solution for all our myriad problems.对于我们数不清的问题他们束手无策。
  • I had three weeks to make a myriad of arrangements.我花了三个星期做大量准备工作。
3 labor
n.劳动,努力,工作,劳工;分娩;vi.劳动,努力,苦干;vt.详细分析;麻烦
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后,他已经疲惫不堪了。
4 randomly
adv.随便地,未加计划地
  • Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内,分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
  • Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句
5 valid
adj.有确实根据的;有效的;正当的,合法的
  • His claim to own the house is valid.他主张对此屋的所有权有效。
  • Do you have valid reasons for your absence?你的缺席有正当理由吗?
6 fully
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
标签: 高级 听力练习
学英语单词
Alger, Wilaya d'
Amashai
amerce
Amu-Dar'ya
arinc
ather-
atomic orbital
attitude rate control
awdls
bacterial equilibrium
beernaert
BisalaxBisacodyl
biscogniauxia citriformis
bordered compact Riemann surface
botew
branch cutout
brontolith
butenoic acid
callithrix aurita
Calmuril
carboloy brush holder
Carigara
cauphe
changingover
commutative justice
convexed
creamed latex
crocynia gossypina
crotalus antitoxin
daily case list
dead rubber
diffuse flow
diffusion amplifier
diploid incompatibility
disciplinary proceedings
dwble
ecosocial
eduskuntas
Endagikot
firm as a rock
florentine weave
foul deck
fremished
froth overflow
gaggery
gallizinite
go for a pull
guide pillar type die
handknitting
heat of decomposition
Heliangelus
hydrogenous elements
hydroxyhistidine
ilamas
intermediatetype
legal deed
liquid styrene butadiene rubber
liquid-suspension reactor
loop disconnect pulsing
manager placement
mccaughrean
mechanical-efficiency
meurer
mudjack
nonreportable
nsima
order for equipment
preacher bird
pressure oil atomizer
pro-provincial
pure binary numeration systems
pusher barge line
pylemphraxis
registered jack-11
reichardts
rolling drum
ruddied
sanding machinery
saponification column
sell someone down the river
Sendzimir process
short base-line interferometer
shunting by pushing off wagons
shweat
somaesthetically
St-Lunaire, B.de
stepwise seal
struma lingualis
tactile seta
thersileion (ancient greece)
timekeepers
tin electroplating
total crotch length
trachypus humilis
triiodo-acetic fluoride
Veracruz incident
void filler
Washo
wedge prop
whiskeytown
wilske
wipe